You want horror? You got it here. This is a horror of a movie

Rating: 3/10 (21 May 2007)

Is there anything substantially good to say about his movie? Well, the cinematography is good, as is the editing; and the special effects are reasonably well done. The empty streets of London are suitably eerie in the first twenty minutes or so.
Beyond that, however, this narrative a nothing more than The Day of The Triffids (1962) redux and only passably better than that earlier horror of a film.
Here's the story, in case you don't know about the Triffids story: sometime in the future, horrible virus kills/sends insane almost all people in the world; young man wakes up in hospital, escapes London with two females, fighting mad zombies all the way; finally reaches sanctuary in rural mansion where British soldiers maintain a last stand; situation with soldiers deteriorates because they want the women for sex and survival of humanity; young man and women finally break out from internecine strife that kills all the soldiers in gory glory; young man and women then flee north and are finally found by 'good' authorities (we think...).
Along all that way, there are more than enough opportunities for the special effects people to show you just how many ways a body can be gutted, maimed, hacked to pieces, tortured, smashed, bashed, garroted, and riddled with bullets. So, if that's your thing, then this one's for you.
Okay, so the subtext is a metaphor for H5N1 (bird flu)  or some other virus -- that's now lurking in the background, all around the world, and probably mutating, as I write, to allow transmission from human to human... Movies such as this one, however, don't help to educate anybody about anything except fear.
Oh, sorry, this film is just entertainment, is it?
I first caught this movie on late night TV and sat down to watch what I thought might be an interesting horror flick; after fifteen minutes or so, I was so bored I switched it off. Then, months later, I read a review of 28 Weeks Later (due out soon) and was intrigued sufficiently to get 28 Days Later to have a second look. I'm now sorry I did, because it truly is a waste of time to watch. And from what I've read about the sequel, that's worse.
So, see it if you must, but don't let your kiddies know.